March 27, 2001

3:13 PM

Survivor: Monster IslandDestroy All Monsters takes on Survivor with a cast of monsters from Japanese films. This looks much more exciting than CBS's show, and the quotes are better to:

Ghidorah has aspirations beyond mindless destruction. "You know what I always wanted to do? Musicals. West Side Story. This 'harass the human race' stuff gets old after a while, ya know?"

posted by DragonBoy (10 comments total)

Oh wow. This is awesome. I didn't follow the TV survivor...but i'll follow this one.
posted by th3ph17 at 3:48 PM on March 27, 2001

Maybe we could combine the two. Humans on one team, the Monsters on the other. I put my money on Godzilla and his team.
posted by Zool at 4:00 PM on March 27, 2001

Who would bet against Godzilla?
posted by sonofsamiam at 4:02 PM on March 27, 2001

Gamera has my vote. Besides being full of turtle meat, he is the friend to all children AND does this really weird thing where he retracts his legs and rocket engines come out.

Hard to top Mothra for sheer uselessness though. As a comic once said "Mothra attacking your city? Get a giant lightbulb ferchrissakes!"

A friend from Japan once told me that during summer vacation, NHK or whatever channel would dress a couple of guys up in the monster suits and just have them slug it out in a wrestling ring. Ah the halcyon days of Asian youth.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:45 PM on March 27, 2001

Very nice indeed! Arguably more inspired than Boozevivor (disclaimer: self-link) that I've been fiddling with for the past couple of weeks. I'm envious.
posted by youhas at 6:36 PM on March 27, 2001

Where is Destroyah?
posted by kristin at 6:49 PM on March 27, 2001

Alright, something I relate to! Another self link.
posted by bjgeiger at 7:31 PM on March 27, 2001

It's actually a peninsula.
posted by Electric Jesus at 9:17 PM on March 27, 2001

Wildly Offtopic Comment: Is it really necessary to use Javascript in the comment submission at this site? I'm new here and have JS turned off to avoid the endless pop-ups and other crap around the web. I am also unwilling to be irritated everywhere else by turning the utterly useless JS back on to facilitate my joining of these discussions... does that mean my kind is unwelcome here?
posted by Electric Jesus at 9:22 PM on March 27, 2001

I am also unwilling to be irritated everywhere else by turning the utterly useless JS back on to facilitate my joining of these discussions

If you use Internet Explorer, add MetaFilter to your Trusted Sites security zone and turn on JavaScript just for that zone. (That would be "Active Scripting" in the Miscellaneous category in the Internet Settings control panel applet, at least on Win2K.)

Or -- what I did on my Mac version of IE -- leave JavaScript on globally (it's too useful to turn off for all sites) and add sites like GeoCities, Tripod, etc. to the Restricted Sites zone and turn JavaScript off in that zone.

BTW, just for future reference, this site has a sister site called MetaTalk which has categories specifically for questions, suggestions, and bug reports involving MetaFilter itself, so as to keep the main site free of technical Q&A about the site. (No foul this time, naturally, since you're new.)
posted by kindall at 11:45 PM on March 27, 2001